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Publisher's Summary

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On Tygon, fans are unable to view what is occurring inside the Game.

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love it

So this is one of those authors that I don't like and yet I love him. So it is not anything wrong with the writing and Luke is a great narrator. Reason I don't like him is I get so into the characters and he hurts them. Not as much in this book but in book I definitely took some breaks not quite ready for what might happen.

Unique and keeps you thinking

Adept handling of many new age ideas and questions, in a story that is actually completely neutral to any belief. It is easily fantasy, but offers a place to stretch one's thoughts about many things that people wonder about. It's all put in a series of computer simulations asking a number of real questions, first can experience in a game advance our real life skills, and a sort of spiritual question being, if we can find magic in virtual reality, can we bring it to our real life. It does this without losing the reality of life always balancing an inherent need for both good and bad outcomes, never knowing for sure what an outcome will be, or what might be really going on beyond what we can fathom from our perspective. There's an opportunity here to be entertained and step outside one's decided reality, and question the big picture.

Very entertaining

Great narrative helps this book have such a strong presence. I'm sure the voices would still be the same if I were to read it myself

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4 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

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4 out of 5 stars

N. Lyons

02-15-17

Can't stop! Listening arghh

I do like this series of books and I was going to go straight onto book 5. uh oh! There isn't a book 5 available yet on Audible.

The whole series is defiantly worth buying, it gets better and better.

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3 out of 5 stars

Norma Miles

02-20-18

Better the Devil you know...

Having even intrigued by the concepts and delighted and drawn to some of the characters in the earlier books, especially in book three, this reader was rather disappointed with the progress through Virtual Prophet which, jumped frenetically between locations seemed to impart an author's desperation to resolve many of the twists earlier introduced rather than a coherent resolution. It remained a fun book to hear but no longer one which held a true integrity. However, the final paragraphs appear to hold out the hope not only of there being more to come but also that there had been an overall arc which would give further depth to this already multi layered story.

As before, The performance by Luke Daniels is excellent with the large cast of protagonists individually voiced.Worth reading if you have come this far, if only to find some of the answers.

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3 out of 5 stars

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3 out of 5 stars

Adam Sheridan

08-14-17

Story is getting overly complex

Great performance from Luke Daniels. Every voice done perfectly and differently. My only issue is that the story has become increasingly complex. I enjoy a complex story but it seems incessant. Hopefully the next book will bring it back down to earth,... or tygon or the dream :)

Overall

1 out of 5 stars

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1 out of 5 stars

Story

1 out of 5 stars

Splodge

07-13-17

Utterly pointless

Would you try another book written by Terry Schott or narrated by Luke Daniels?

Yes

What was most disappointing about Terry Schott’s story?

Alexa can't play this book beyond chapter 20, the stream is broken. It just gives error messages. The whole series was a massive waste of time and money.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Luke Daniels?

Nobody, he's great.

What character would you cut from Virtual Prophet?

I don't know. I never got to hear the end of the story. If he cut all of them I guess it would have saved me £24 and about 2 weeks of my life.

Any additional comments?

I'm really angry at Audible. We pay for a [relatively simple] service. Being able to stream overpriced audiobooks is Audible's entire business model, you'd think they could get it right.